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H.L. Mencken
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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Marquis de La Grange
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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Walter Lippmann
Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
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Michael McClary
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
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Mark Twain
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
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Anne Wilson Schaef
We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.
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Duchess de Abrantes
Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.
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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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